Method of constructing wagon-seats



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J. Q. FLINT. METHOD 0F CONSTRUGTING WAGON SEATS.

No. 369,510. Patented Sept. 6, 1887.

INVENTOR: j@ BY WITNESSES ATTORNEYS.

NITED STATES PATENT trice.

JOHN Q. FLINT, OF VILTON, NEW HAMPSHIRE.

METHOD OF CONSTRUCTING WAGON-SEATS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 369,510, dated September 6, 1887.

Application lilcd May 11, 1886. Serial No. 201,333.

To (LZZ whom it indy concern.:

Be it known that I, JOHN Q. FLINT, of Wilton, county of Hillsborough, and State of New.

Hampshire, have invented new and useful Improvements in the Construction of lagon- Seats, of which the following is a specication, reference being had to the annexed drawings, forming a part thereof, in which- Fignre l is a side eleva-tion. Fig. 2 is a rear view. Fig. 3 is an inverted plan view.

Similar letters of reference indicate corre spending parts in the different iigures of the drawings.

The object of my invention is to provide simple and efficient means for bending the rails of seat-backs and securing them to the sawed back-piece.

My invention consists in a method of securing the bent rail to thelower edge of the sawed bacl -piece, as hereinafter fully described, and pointed out in the claim.

In carrying out my invention I provide a i'orrn, A,whicli is adapted to receive the sawed part B of the buggy-back, which is temporarily secured to the form by screws passing through the forminto the back. The end of the form projects beyond the end of the back, and is rabbeted to produce a bearingsurface for the rail, which is bent around the form and along the lower edge of the back B, as will be hereinafter more fully described.

To the ends of the curved form Als secured the crossbar C, having slots a cut in opposite ends and slots b cut down its outer face, constituting forms for the ends of the seatrail. The curved form A and the bar C are connected together by tongue-and-groove joints D D', which permit of expanding the forms for (No model.)

seats of different lengths. The bar G is secured to the form A by bolts d, which permit of removing the bar from the forni. The ends ofthe bars c, of which the seat-rail is formed, are received in the slots b a, and are scarfed or halved together at their adjoining ends at the center of the back-piece B, and are secured to the lower edge of the back by means of nails or screws and glued, and to facilitate the bending ofthe adjoining ends of the bars c they are split longitudinally'. The ends ofthe bars c are broughtinto contact with the back-piece B by means of clamps of the usual form, and they are held in this position until the rail has become thoroughly dry and its form iixed,when the screws which hold the back-piece Bto the form A are removed, and the screws (Z, which hold the bar C to the front of the form A, are also removed, and the bars c, with the back, may be removed and afterward finished up in the usual way.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The method of connecting the bent rail of a wagon-seat with the sawed baclrpiece, which consists in securing the back-piece to a suit-l able form, bending the parts of the rail over the form and along the edge of the back-piece, clamping or otherwise securing the rail to the edge of the back-piece, and finally removing the back-piece and railtogether from the form, substantial] y as herein shown and described.

JOHN Q. FLINT.

Witnesses:

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